Lewis and Tolkien - The Lost Road

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Haydn Gwynne

Tom Goodman-Hill

Pip Torrens

Carolyn Pickles

Harry Jardine

John Norton

Arthur Hughes

Isabel Brooks

Robin Brooks

Jonquil Panting

Drama: Biographical

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From Middle Earth to Narnia, Robin Brooks's drama explores two writers' friendship.

A playful tribute to CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien’s long friendship and how it impacted on their achievements. Stars Haydn Gwynne.

Whether you like or loathe elves and talking lions, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis each created compelling fictional worlds whose influence has become global.

CS Lewis was an academic and broadcaster whose prolific publication of literary criticism, novels, Christian apologia and the Narnia books for children brought him an international reputation in his lifetime.

By the time of his death in 1973, JRR Tolkien's 'The Lord of The Rings' and 'The Hobbit', (along with other published stories and poems which drew upon the mythology of Middle Earth), had already made him a cult figure around the world.

Starring Haydn Gwynne, Tom Goodman-Hill and Pip Torrens.

Robin Brooks' drama is a playful tribute to the long friendship between the two men, and the way it shaped their achievements.

Elf Queen ...... Haydn Gwynne
JRR Tolkien ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
CS Lewis ...... Pip Torrens
Worm ...... Carolyn Pickles
Betjeman ...... Harry Jardine
Informator ...... John Norton
Marcus ...... Arthur Hughes
Tiny Elf Princess ...... Isabel Brooks

Director:  Jonquil Panting.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.

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